When you let your story and characters dictate your aesthetic decisions as a filmmaker, you'll hit a home run every single time.

Though the processes of documentary and fiction filmmaking share many similarities, there are a few crucial mindset shifts you'll want to make in order to be successful in the world of documentaries. Our friend Evan Kidd, who has written a couple of excellent guest posts for this site, recently put out a video on his YouTube channel that explores these documentary filmmaking mindsets.

It's no secret that pole dancing carries the stigma that it's something only strippers do. Pride, Pole & Prejudice is a ten minute documentary that examines the growing trend of pole dancing in London, as a form of fitness, by speaking to the students and teachers who practice this art form.

This is an interview with Levi Allen VanderKwaak, an adventure filmmaker based in British Columbia. His recent short documentary Untethered has been seen hundreds of thousand of times, thanks in part to its jaw-dropping subject matter, and thanks in part to the fact that it is extremely well-crafted and was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick.